Georg Complains: Streaming "Documentaries" 

Indeed! 😀

This was my big concern as well.

Some say it was the lamp that insisted on the move

...some say the lava lamp is the last remaining horcrux containing a piece of Georg's very soul..... if it were ever to break :s

>comment made 5 days ago >video is 6 hours old

Discovery Canada did it first.

Hear hear.. amen to that.

I used my spare time during the pandemic to reacquaint myself with the work of Louis Theroux, such as Weird Weekend, his BBC specials, and When Louis Met... I found the episode were he was on the road with Jimmy Saville particularly chilling, as the man had (who I would argue as the greatest investigative journalist of my generation) wrapped around his little finger. Louis's follow-up documentary after Savilles death must have been incredibly difficult for him.

Tiger King

Those ones that are like 3 or more eps are always sus, like PBS and BBC could do a complex subject in an hour in the 80's/90's, why do you need 3+ hours to cover a murder?

"I noticed most of them are essentially just reality TV presented as a documentary" - that´s what i thought watching this video: "None of these are documentaries." But then again, i am no expert on genres, so it´s probably me getting it wrong. Documentaries, in my mind, in most cases, dont require investigative journalism - most of the time school book knowledge is enough. They are mostly meant to educate the general public on a topic of general interest (so, not the private life of some celebreties, f.e., but say world war 2, or the carbon cycle or the Apollo program or our modern understanding of physics and how we got it ; to name but a few) on a level that would bore the hell out of an expert of it. The name kinda implies none-controversiality. It´s documented (=known, Kalessi). Usually, if someone calls any of the things mentioned in this video a "documentary", i tend to form an opinion about that person, that is not very favorable, assuming, that this person has zero interest in education and does not even understand what can be considered part of it. Sounds snobby, but, alas.... that´s how i see it. Anyone can, of course, watch whatever he or she likes, but in my mind it is literally impossible to watch a "documentary" about the kardassians. Also any piece about the murder of some rando, noone has ever heard about, is no documentary, imho. The two things combined (about the murder of a kardassian) would still be a stretch, in my book. (On self-reflexion, i cannot deny, that there is probably some old man´s bias here, cause i do think the murder of John Lennon is a viable topic for a documentary, and i cannot really say why i make a difference here, outside of personal bias). In general: If there would be no way to justify showing a piece to a class in high school, then it´s no documentary, It HAS to have some educational merit. (I keep editing this) - The more i think about it, the more i think that "investigative" journalism is completely outside the scope of documentaries. They are not scientific essays in the sense that they have to present something new to be valid. On the contrary. Imagine a crime show... there are the scenes in which the team collects the evidence and interviews witnesses - that´s the science part. And there are the scenes, in which the team assembles at a desk in front of a white board and someone asks: "Okay, what do we know, so far?"... and the answers that are coming and whatever gets noted on the board - that´s the documentary part. It´s all known stuff, repackaged in a presentable way, made digestable to outsiders. Though there are exceptions to this, too, when it´s about contemporary topics - but i tend to call those "reports", instead. If it´s about, say, the Panama Papers, f.e.

Gold, ahaha…

No, that would be much more entertaining.

@@LividImp I just turned your thumbs up to 11.

@@jasonwomack4064 Why not just make 10 worth more thumbs up?

@@LividImp *chews gum* *looks at thumbs* *looks back at Livid Imp* *looks back at thumbs* ...but these goes up to 11.

Listen here friend, by the time Zach and his crew leave there are no ghosts present in those places. What more do you want?

these and big foot hunting make me so angry

Have you seen Grave Encounters? It's filmed as one of those ghost hunting shows, but then they actually find some ghosts. It's pretty spooky and I think they do a good job with the premise. Don't watch the sequel, tho. Oh hey, they got it streaming free on youtube ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--ASWIUM-78w.html

Yo Ghost Adventures is one of the most entertaining things on television. I dont give a shit about ghosts but Zak Bagans will forever be fun to laugh at

Ghost molesterers.

I still think the BBC i Player should have a heap of the old *Horizon* docu-programs on the service; a good deal of those were really unique & superb watches

@@zetetick395 Maybe on Britbox? I am not paying for a streaming service full of old programmes I've already paid for via the license fee.

@@lexiwilson9501 Soo, you say you've already paid, but you'd prefer they _weren't_ available for you to watch? It's not a warehouse, there's unlimited space on iPlayer for quality content we've already paid for previously.

@@zetetick395 No, I'm saying Amazon should up their quality control. Most of their docs are just filler.

Meanwhile, you have people on RU-vid making 1.5-2.5 hour videos that are some of the best documentaries I've seen but don't get a fraction of the clout or money that some of this streaming garbage does. Dan Olson is on here destroying the NFT market, Kevin Perjurer made a beautiful tribute to a talented musician whose work millions of people have heard without even wondering who wrote it (and of course its surreal cousin, Harris Brewis's exposé of the pathological liar who takes credit for other people's video game sound effects), not to mention the dozens of creators have long-running, in-depth history series that constantly get demonetized at the mere mention of war. 😤

@@erraticonteuse Totally, also I´m gonna check out those that you mention thanks!

I blame history channel and E!

Macy's closed down years ago and they never served fast food. Oh you mean McDonald's.

Was gonna say this, there's a TON of shit documentaries from the 80's and 90's, we just remember the good ones

It was good? You're right about that title, but now I'm gonna check it out!

OMG, The Act of Killing has seared into my brain. It was so horrible, so well done, and so necessary to shine a light on those atrocities.

I absolutely _hate_ all the annoying sounds they add to insect documentaries. It makes them unwatchable. I also hate ASMR vids, they gross me out. Fake sound fx insect ASMR is what a lot of the new docs are and it makes me want to go nuclear.

@@user-ellievator I find the food "ASMR" videos particularly offensive. How anyone can find the sounds of (insert name of favourite obnoxious, 400lb American and/or petite, child-like Asian "Mukbanger" here) slurping down a sink-full of live cephalopods, or malling several buckets of fried chicken dipped into another bucket of dressing, relaxing?! Ugh, the sound of them suckling their greasy fingers and declaring "uhhh, sooo good..." is the worse 🤢🤮 Like TikTok and Only Fans, I just find the whole endeavour another backed-up flush in the overflowing toilet of humanity...

I thought it was just me!!!! I HATE those corny sound effects, music stings, and forced narratives. I came to watch a nature doc, not Tom & Jerry.

Also everything is in slow motion at all times.

@@residentelect I thought you were being funny then I searched for food asmr. What the f**k is wrong with these people? The sound of someone slurping their way through a plate of curry makes me want to commit murder--I think the jury would find I had just cause.

nuttypeas.

Although their contemporary work is considered "Left Wing biased" I still think the BBC make excellent documentaries. Their "Natural World" documentaries such as "Serengeti" The Blue/Green/Frozen Planet series, "Dynasties" and "Seven Worlds, One Planet" are stunning. They also do very good procedural documentaries about the work of the emergency services, which concentrate on the human side of those jobs, the toll it takes on First Responders, and explore more than just the "blood and guts" action. "Ambulance" and "The Met: Policing London" are excellent if you're into that type of gritty real life drama.

@@residentelect Funny, the BBC's contemporary work is often labelled 'Right Wing biased' as well.

@@residentelect Of course! I totally still respect BBC docs, PBS still puts out quality stuff too. You can still feel the journalism in their productions. I don't normally feel that with the docs found on the streaming service heavy hitters. "Documentaries" that are the equivalent of imitation crab meat.

@@KitchenSinkSoup Yeah, I think it depends on which media/content you happen to be consuming at the material time. The more radical Leftists believe the organisation is still a platform fie the "Establishment"⁶, while many down the pub watching Match of the Day will argue the exact opposite lol

I'll never understand how Oswalt and her editor weren't charged with negligent homicide, or similar. They were clearly supplying her with stimulants. And when she complained about not being able to sleep, she was told that that was perfectly normal and not to worry about it. A few days later, she was dead.

…always should be someone you really loooooveeeee

I think they steered away from it because other than the tox screen there wasn’t anybody saying she did drugs. We didn’t even get to hear from the other side of their family which speaks volumes itself. I also doubt the husband was itching to talk about anything else other than trying to clear her name due to being sued.

the magic of documentary or especially Reportage. kein Plan ob des uff english nomo anners heißt. anyways. the magic is you just follow someone around and if nothing happens you can say that's authentic. no need to go in actual depth. yes let's film the 4th person today going 20kmh too fast, it was so exciting the last time.

That sounds terrible. I hope ya got the weekend off.

As a brit, I’ve never heard of this product name! Thanks for explaining

Armand Hammer was also a big and enthusiastic investor in the early USSR, pencils were one of the products he sold, beautiful advertisements

* Allegedly * caused. (Jesus man, do you want to get black bagged in the night?? You can't imagine what the HipTang people are capable of!)

it's not just you. i use a firefox addon that boosts volume for when youtubers do their dynamic audio wrong where it sounds too quiet like this.

Where did you get that information about her editor and what they told her about the drugs?

@@piggy201 From "I'll be Gone in the Dark". It's mentioned several times.

I watched the Zodiac one as well. Imagine being devastated to learn your dad wasn't a serial killer ha ha!

I absolutely agree.

Patton Oswalt was an accessory to his wife's death.

@@lexiwilson9501 "You mean the fact my surname is 'Goebbels' and that I chose a career in marketing, is nothing more than a coincidence..? Damn... Well that's just made me a lot less interesting to talk to at dinner parties..."

Yeah, she literally did nothing to catch EARONS. All she did was give him a badass nickname. The East Area Rapist is a far more repugnant and fitting name.

I especially hated the ending where in true "it's just a prank bro" form the filmmakers tried to make some kind of meta statement about our attraction to the macabre and how we should be ashamed of ourselves for watching their documentary. You're right, documentarians, because your documentary was shit.

@@mistersydster dont fuck with the cats was a prank/fake?

@@mistersydster especially as the music and editing did everything to dramatize the story. If I watch it for the topic matter and you try to make a thriller out of it that's on you, not on society.

@@mistersydster Gotta love when they validate AAALL the people who passed up on their shit documentary lol

that story and that guys victim's story was so horrifying, i couldn't believe it when it was framed around a bunch of bubbled up reddit folks.

when he made a joke about the underage child star having a porn name at comicon, in front of him and all the fans and cast i knew he was suss. that's such gross behavior to just riff out like that

Cant stand him

with a great soundtrack!

I like finding old documentaries uploaded to RU-vid. I keep asking my husband why we pay for a crapflix subscription as there is way better content on RU-vid for free. . 🤔 @nfb is the national film board of Canada channel with a whole backlog of Canadian documentary content if that interests you at all.

Big thumbs up! Would have added 88 thumbs up if I could.

"If I did it: My wife would probably try to find that out and fail but write a book about anyway"

It was a cocktail of drugs that he procured for her, knowing she had a problem. Although, to be completely fair, she'd had the problem for a long time, and I'm sure he didn't suspect she was courting death. Life IS complicated that way. 🤷‍♂️

I'll never understand how Oswalt and her editor weren't charged with negligent homicide, or similar. They were clearly supplying her with stimulants. And when she complained about not being able to sleep, she was told that that was perfectly normal and not to worry about it. A few days later, she was dead.

What's what made it so good I found.

not sure they are extraordinary at all - you should really think about all of the unsaid things among your friend and family, and then think about what might happen after people stick their head in the sand for while.

The Internet is actually run by a wall of lava lamps. I'm not even kidding. Look it up if you don't believe me. Type wall of lava lamps into a search engine.

@@1pcfred Are there any documentaries about this Wall of Lava Lamps? I hope it has sub-titles and some slow-motion segments. A re-enactment with a look-alike Lava Lamp is always a good sign. It would be grand if Peter Graves were to narrate.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SHjNXD-6EtE.html

my GF at the time went to the theater in 2003 to see 'Capturing the Friedmans' and well, we definitely saw society and humans much differently then before the viewing. I hadn't felt that way until watching 'My Octopus Teacher' and there is a purity to documentaries, I'm gonna watch 'Atomic Homefront' this weekend, TY

Nuh uh. You're forgetting the ones that make 15 minute summaries of internet drama and exist to get the attention of the YT doco King: a guy with a toffy voice rambling for an hour showing google definitions of basic psychological concepts to pad it out and make him seem smart and hiding his past of being a despicable right-winger. Yes I do really hate TRO.

@@taranullius9221 Who is TRO?

@@taranullius9221 Are you talking about The Right Opinion?

and the two follow ups - anyway, 'nice' to know the actual person or person who murdered those kids got to walk free because right wing conservatives want to prosecute the other instead of the actually guilty persons.

You're either with, or without.